Nurses assist Hohoe District Hospital

Story: Emmanuel Modey, Hohoe
April 1, 2008
THE Hohoe branch of the Ghana Registered Nurses Association (GRNA) has put up a GH¢2,200 five-seater public place of convenience for the out-patients department (OPD) of the Hohoe District Hospital.
The decision to start the project was taken at a meeting in 2001 where they raised some funds towards the facility.
Thereafter members of the association started the payment of voluntary contributions and selling of coupons to complete the project.
Inaugurating the project, the Medical Superintendent of the hospital, Dr Edwin Danoo, said the facility had come to relieve the hospital of a huge challenge which faced patients who patronised the hospital.
He called on the GRNA to run the place effectively to prevent it from creating more health problems.
Dr Danoo informed the patients that the hospital now had a voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) centre for HIV/AIDS.
He announced that the hospital had also put up a modern laboratory with its internally generated funds.
According to the medical superintendent, the facility also had a physiotherapy unit for the treatment of stroke, hypertension, diabetes, joint pains and arthritis.
The Hohoe District Chairman of the GRNA, Mr Frank Gyamwodie, advised the patients to use the facility with care.